Question of the Day: Day 52
Does your mood (good or bad) have an impact on how your perceive the words and actions of others?
What can you do to help avoid conflict and miscommunication?
What can you do to help avoid conflict and miscommunication?
posted by Michelle at 9:04 AM
6 Comments:
Oh definitely! My mood may cause me to take harmless words and make them hurtful; it may cause me to take hurtful words with a grain of salt.
The best way to avoid miscommunication is to air any concerns in a diplomatic way. If things can be brought into the open and discussed, hopefully all can avoid having feelings hurt due to completely unrelated reasons.
Yes when I am upset I get to were all I hear is nagtive things even if the person is trying to be nice aboyt what they are trying to say I still take it the wrong way.
Does your mood (good or bad) have an impact on how your perceive the words and actions of others?
What can you do to help avoid conflict and miscommunication?
Yes it does beacause if I'm in a good mood I can have a good tone in my voice but if I'm in a bad or depressed/sad mood then I'll have a tone that sounds like I'm being rude or like I'm in a bad mood but really I'm not I'm just depressed and really sad. So i just try to be in a good mood because if I have a tone like that when I'm depressed it starts alot of stuff at the house/school and I tend to get in alot of trouble. So I try to no be sad and depressed alot of the times.
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This is similar to the question we had on Day 24 only it is about perception rather than values.
I do think that moods influence perceptions and perceptions influence thoughts (where our values play an active part) and our thoughts (right or wrong) influence our behaviors.
There have been times when I have been ill or worried and I know that I have had less patience than at other times and those are the times that if I don't pay extra close attention then I may say or do something harsher than I would normally do.
Because I know that about myself and I value my relationships with people there are times when I ask the people around me to please give me some space, time, or peace until I work through whatever is going on with me. Hopefully that can help to avoid conflict or miscommunications.
When I mess up and say or do anything hurtful then I have to make it right by taking responsibility for my own actions and talking about it to the person.
It sometimes wont but sometimes it will strongly have an impact. I can allways be respectful to someone so we have no miscommunication.
Most definitely. I really do try to stay positive and look for the best from others, but it doesn't always work. The worst is when I run into someone having as bad a day as I and then trying to negotiate that whole interaction. I know I should realize that I usually am not the cause of their bad day, but instead I get hyper defensive. This just adds to the tension and lack of trust.
How do you avoid this? I guess just being open about your feelings. However, you still need to communicate some level of understanding of the other person's feelings. You can't just unload on them and expect them not to react negatively. Finally, you have to allow them to respond or react to what you said or did. If you were conscientious of there feelings as you expressed yours, they will most likely reciprocate.
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